A blaze swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing a six-year-old boy and leaving about 2,000 people homeless in the sixth fire this year to hit the world’s biggest refugee camp, officials and witnesses said.
The fire gutted parts of the Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, a border district where than a million mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees live, most having fled a military-led crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar in 2017.
The blaze follows a massive fire in January, which destroyed 1,200 shelters and left more than 5,000 people homeless and four smaller fires between January and March.
